Harry Reid Takes on Senate Rules

Continuing his efforts to re-make the United States Senate into a more pompous version of the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to change the Rules of the Senate with a majority vote Thursday. He succeeded. The Senate changed its Rules, 51-48, despite the Senate …

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Written by Steve Bell on Friday October 7, 2011

Reid's $40 Billion: Yeah, Right

On balance, Harry Reid's plan for raising the debt ceiling and cutting spending looks pretty good to me. Congress will eventually need to do more but the plan he's devised is a fair enough middle ground: real spending cuts with no broad-based tax increases. One feature of the plan, an effort to, as …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Tuesday July 26, 2011